All power point and poster book report grades were written in students' agendas on the Monday before Thanksgiving. Please refer to your son/daughter's agenda to see how they did. Students who received a poor grade most likely skipped a section on the project. They may complete the missing section to earn points back on their project grade.
I am still missing some short stories. Students who did not turn in a short story received a referral and need to get this assignment completed asap. Students who are missing work will receive an incomplete on their report card and will end up in summer school if the missing work is not completed.
Writing A,B, and C
All writing classes are finishing up chapter 2 on nouns. This test will be on Friday, December 4. Please review direct and indirect objects as well as prepositional phrases. This seems to be the most difficult part of the chapter. Remember McDougall Littell has a link to the right of my page where students can access grammar practice activities.
All students will be getting their topics for the 8th grade research paper this week. This is the biggest writing assignment of the year and a mandatory assignment for graduation. Most of the work for the research paper will be done in class, but the final product will be completed at home. The students will have two months to complete this assignment.
Reading 8A
Students will be reading the Lady and the Tiger this week. The assessment for this story will not be until next week. The vocabulary words are as follows: barbarians, savage, jealousy, gladiators, willful, subject, arena, and justice.
Reading 8B
Students are finishing up with The Ransom of Red Chief. The assessment for this story will be on Thursday, December 3rd. Please remember to review the term irony and the following vocabulary words: collaborate, commend, comply, diatribe, impudent, palatable, pervade, proposition, ransom, and surreptitiously.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Week of Nov. 9-13
Short story final drafts were due today, Tuesday Nov. 10. Twenty-two 8th graders did not turn in their story on time. They will loose citizenship points each day it is late and will eventually earn a referral for "failure to complete work in a timely manner". Please check with your son or daughter and make sure they have turned in their story.
If students need to retest their Chapter 1 grammar test, they must do that this week on Thursday or Friday in workroom. Please ask your son/daughter how they did on their Chapter 1 grammar test.
Grammar Chapter 2 quiz on lessons 1-3 will be on Monday, November 16th.
Reading 8A...has a quiz on "Two were Left" on Friday, November 13th. The vocabulary words from this story are difficult to spell and define. Please practice them at home. Word List: essential, fashioned, suspiciously, ominously, descended, steeled, incredulously, crudely, wedged, and awkward.
Reading 8B and 8C...has their quiz on Tuesday, November 17th on "Mother in Mannville". Please practice the vocabulary words at home. I am noticing many vocabulary words that are not spelled correctly on the test. Word List: abstracted, blunt, clarity, communion, ecstasy, impel, inadequate, instinctive, kindling, and predicated.
Advisement groups...don't forget your canned food for the food drive competition for the food bank. The winning advisement group will get an ice cream cake reward.
High School Night is this Thursday night, November 12th. Students and parents are welcomed to come to the cafeteria between 5:30 and 7:30 to gather information on various local high schools. Hope to see you there...
If students need to retest their Chapter 1 grammar test, they must do that this week on Thursday or Friday in workroom. Please ask your son/daughter how they did on their Chapter 1 grammar test.
Grammar Chapter 2 quiz on lessons 1-3 will be on Monday, November 16th.
Reading 8A...has a quiz on "Two were Left" on Friday, November 13th. The vocabulary words from this story are difficult to spell and define. Please practice them at home. Word List: essential, fashioned, suspiciously, ominously, descended, steeled, incredulously, crudely, wedged, and awkward.
Reading 8B and 8C...has their quiz on Tuesday, November 17th on "Mother in Mannville". Please practice the vocabulary words at home. I am noticing many vocabulary words that are not spelled correctly on the test. Word List: abstracted, blunt, clarity, communion, ecstasy, impel, inadequate, instinctive, kindling, and predicated.
Advisement groups...don't forget your canned food for the food drive competition for the food bank. The winning advisement group will get an ice cream cake reward.
High School Night is this Thursday night, November 12th. Students and parents are welcomed to come to the cafeteria between 5:30 and 7:30 to gather information on various local high schools. Hope to see you there...
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Week of Nov. 2-6
Update...
Congratulations to all 8th grade students...I have received a book report from each one of you. I will grade them over the next two weeks and hopefully you will have your score sheet back before Thanksgiving.
Grammar Chapter one tests were taken on Tuesday. Five students missed this test and need to make it up in the next few days. We will be starting Chapter 2 this week. Chapter 2's main focus is on nouns.
We have been working on short stories in writing class. 14 students have not turned in a peer edit sheet for their short story. Final copies of short stories are due on Tuesday, November 10th.
In reading 8A, we have just receive the new vocabulary words for Two were Left. The words for this story are a little more difficult to spell and remember the definition, so practice, practice, practice.
In reading 8B and 8C, we have just received the vocabulary words for Mother in Mannville. Please make sure you are practicing their spelling and definitions.
REMINDERS: Over 20 8th graders are missing work. Please have your child check and see if they are missing work. If they are missing work, they need to come into workroom and make it up. A reminder...our school policy states that unresoved incomplete grades result in a student attending summer school or being retained.
On a lighter note...I am in need of tissues in my classroom. Please donate tissues. I only received a few boxes at the beginning of the year and they are all gone.
Congratulations to all 8th grade students...I have received a book report from each one of you. I will grade them over the next two weeks and hopefully you will have your score sheet back before Thanksgiving.
Grammar Chapter one tests were taken on Tuesday. Five students missed this test and need to make it up in the next few days. We will be starting Chapter 2 this week. Chapter 2's main focus is on nouns.
We have been working on short stories in writing class. 14 students have not turned in a peer edit sheet for their short story. Final copies of short stories are due on Tuesday, November 10th.
In reading 8A, we have just receive the new vocabulary words for Two were Left. The words for this story are a little more difficult to spell and remember the definition, so practice, practice, practice.
In reading 8B and 8C, we have just received the vocabulary words for Mother in Mannville. Please make sure you are practicing their spelling and definitions.
REMINDERS: Over 20 8th graders are missing work. Please have your child check and see if they are missing work. If they are missing work, they need to come into workroom and make it up. A reminder...our school policy states that unresoved incomplete grades result in a student attending summer school or being retained.
On a lighter note...I am in need of tissues in my classroom. Please donate tissues. I only received a few boxes at the beginning of the year and they are all gone.
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